Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

Based in New York and Cambridge, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing for every developer. We are working on solving some of the most challenging and interesting technology projects around, on a scale unmatched by most.  

We want people who are passionate about creating APIs and tools that our community of developers will love.

We are looking for an engineer to develop our public API and command line offerings. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Client Engineering, this engineer will work closely with our community and with our own internal team to bring our excellent user experience to our APIs.

Our community loves us for our simple to use tools and interfaces. We want to help them scale their business to the next level. You won’t be alone here. We have a great supporting cast to ensure we’re providing a great developer experience. This role can be 100% Remote or in our NY or Cambridge offices.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Building the public API that teams of developers use to interact with DigitalOcean features.
• Collaborating across the Engineering team to provide a consistent, coherent public API.
• Listening and responding to feedback from the community.
• Working openly/publicly (via github) with open source software.
• Be supported by our infrastructure team for shared infrastructure needs (API Gateway, Auth, Deployment, Observability).

What We’ll Expect From You:

• Empathy for our developer users and the customers/stakeholders you support..
• Passion for delivering simple and elegant solutions that developers will love.
• Opinions about API design: Who are the inspirational/aspirational companies doing it well or not so well in your estimation?
• Experience with REST (and optionally Terraform).
• Understanding of API versioning strategies, access control, and other best practices.
• Excitement about working with Go, gRPC or similar technologies. 

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
• We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
• We care about you. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to support your physical health, and a monthly commute allowance to make your trips to and from work easier.
• We invest in your future. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. We also provide all employees with Kindles and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We want you to love where you work. We have great office spaces located in the heart of SoHo NYC and Cambridge, and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We’re also very remote-friendly—we use Slack to communicate across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to take an all-expense-paid trip to our office to get quality in-person time with the team at least once a year. We also allow employees to customize their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in office.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Department: Engineering